MAYBE we need CRISPIAN ST. PETERS to lead us out of the mess this country is in. WAS 12 years old when this song came out, and to this day it still leaves it's tune playing in my head for days. THANKS for loading it.
@60fatman Glad to see there are some left out there. Graduated MCRD San Diego, Platoon 3042, 03/02/1966 I was 19 years old. Then, Schools Battalion (Del Mar Area) tank instructor. 1967, shipped to 6th ForceRecon Co. Pearl Harbor HI. I had no clue! Discharged 11/1969.
It's interesting how certain songs bring back the memories. Wild/crazy times to be a Marine.
The summer of 66 is dead on but this song didnt even make the top 40 national billboard single chart. Im surprised cause I remember hearing it all the time
Yes, on 16th May 1992 my band Gemstone were playing at the Swanley Workingmens Club in Kent and I had the great honour of passing my faithful old Stratocaster to "Crispy" and he did a blinding version of this song to all and sundry, as he used to frequent that club quite often. It was so sad to hear of his passing. That is a gig I will never forget.
I was probably about six years old when this song was out and here I am now and couldn't jump more than a few feet like that with out in jury. I know there are alternate realities going on in all different time tunnels and I'm sure part of the formula for transporting has to be through music. How fast does music travel?
This is a great track...It tends to be remembered in the wrong way for some reason. It is only when one plays it again that one actually hears the beauty the music the atmosphere...Its really great. I can only think that people conjure up childish images of what it could possible sound like because the chances are that they haven't heard it and because of the infant school images of The Pied Piper my blemish a track with sophisticated music
Although Crispian obviously didn't read the original story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in which the Pied Piper KIDNAPS the town's children in revenge for the residents' refusal to pay for his services as a rat catcher. So, it turned out to be a singularly bad idea to follow the Pied Piper, for rats as well as for the children, which makes the line 'Trust in me I'm the Pied Piper' sound rather ironic. Don't follow him poor girl whom this song is about, it's a trap!!!!!! :-)
@BloodyHellLDN yes, this is the story of the RATTENFAENGER von HAMELN, a lovely old town near Detmold, Herford and Bielefeld, where we had a lot of british soldiers w/their families. Hope their children are still all complete :-). This area (Weserbergland) is worth a visit or a vacation. Regards to the UK !
I just love this song and video...good humour...audience being invited to join in and really enjoying themselves and you certainly wouldnt find any of today's so called singers having a great time like this on x-factor..this was when times were more fun
You don't get it! LOL! I AM old enough, (60) and if you were that old, you would'nt even remember what you had for breakfast tonight! Well, I have to take my teeth out and go to bed! LOL! Talk later!
There was a sweet innocence there, wasn't there? All gone now.....thank God for YouTube for helping to preserve these memories of another time and place.
@TheProfessorpat Perhaps,,, what if our 'sweet innocence' was actually a euphemistic device for the sheltered-idiocy that allowed our military to slaughter three million men, women and children, all while we just partied-on in a gloriously obscene rapture? While it is true that we Americans are surrounded by the mighty oceans of yesteryear, we will lay claim to a tomorrow that knows no evil and is instead ruled by the kindness of the human heart. Peace.
You Americans are surrounded not by mighty oceans but by people who know evil and who are aware of the evil of America. and for crying out loud, what has this got to do with Crispian St. Peters?????
@supercarXXX lol. the comments from the poster (that is to say, the one whose comments i made a comment on) had a resonance to the book by richard brautigan 'all watched over by machines of loving grace', which is worth a read. i understand that this book has been made into a television programme too, hence your helpful, if somewhat redundant comment. hope this helps.
@slightofffist Well perhaps "innocence" isn't quite the right term...perhaps what I am trying to say was that the 60s were imbued with a wonderful spirit of openness and a joyful appreciation (particularly among the young) of the sensual and spiritual delights life had to offer. While the "old conciousness" robots who controlled the levers of power and privilege waged their terrible wars of attrition, the young people danced and sang and loved to the "Pied Piper."
AW ! the summer of 1966 I was Fort Knox Kentucky, so young getting ready for Vietnam, Man where has time gone. good song. Hawk are you out there somewhere
Who Wrote The Song I'm The Pied Piper? Arte Kornfeld (one of the organizers of the Woodstock Festival) & Steve Duboff. They also are credited with writing the Cowsill's hit...The Rain, the Park, and Other Things. From Ask.com
"Under manager David Nicolson's tutelage the shy star was momentarily transformed into arrogance incarnate and astonished the conservative music press of the period by his suggestion that he had written 80 songs of better quality than those of The Beatles. St. Peters also announced that he was better than Elvis Presley: "I'm going to make Presley look like the Statue of Liberty . . . I am sexier than Dave Berry and more exciting than Tom Jones . . . and the Beatles are past it"
I love Crispian St Peters. One of my favs. This is a great tune & his version of "you were on my mind" is top notch.' "But she's untrue" is a good one too.
Now, those were the good old days.....wish I was old enough to remember them! Times these days aren't so kind anymore....look at all the fun those people were having....what I would give to go back in time...
@Bansheeeyes78 Crispian St Peter died in 2010. His life was not easy. The past is gone, but you live on. You can be the Pied Piper today. Best wishes.
I think that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. What a natrural born performer he was. Kind of rivals Michael Jackson in that respect don't you think?
Very sad to hear of his passing. Great song, wonderful 60s performer. I remember Pied Piper as one of my ATFs; it still sounds so happy and upbeat today! Wonderful, wonderful times; so happy i was there as a teen.
Did not know he had passed on until I saw this video and read the comments. How incredibly sad. One of the all time great songs from my teenage years. RIP beautiful Crispian and thanks for the memories.
Now that he's gone...What impresses me is that judging from this video, he didn't take himself too seriously---which is always a good thing, in my opinion. Can you think of any other song in history that sounds like this one? I can't. It was unique and good back then (and still is), and he knew it. But he was cool enough to have some fun with it. I'll bet he was one cool dude. He had to be!
@davetheoldmod aw come on Dave this sort of stuff was liked by people who migrated to 'Northern Soul' in the late 70s early 80s. Funny that phrase isn't it 'Northern Soul' - wasn't desperately northern from my point of view (in fact it was substantially south) and was totally bland, lacking all soul. Called 'oxymoronical' I think - certainly sounds about right.
@karenredhead01 sorry but I was a teenager in these days riding my lambretta far before quadrophenia and this is what we listened to in the cafe's and later the disco's, it was all new to us and we loved life ( still do and still ride a 60's modded up Lambretta, occassionally with my 35 year old daughter on the back !) We kept it simple and our music was certainly ( and still is ) fun
What the hell are you talkin' bout, Karen? You wasted your time listening/watching this and then offered your nebulous criticism of it? Jeezus. You gotta be kiddin' me...
zoggy, I dont know what he actually died of but according to the local newspaper this week, he has suffered several strokes the first being in 1995. Since retiring from the music industry in 2001, he has since 2003 been hospitalised on several occasions with pnuemonia. His funeral is due to be held at 130pm St Marys church, London Road Swanley Kent on July 7th.
This song makes me think of much, much better, easier, less complicated times. RIP Crispian. You always made me smile and dance whenever I heard this - you did today.
OMG - the worst thing in the 60s is white people thought they could dance, and lots of the whilte boys wore white pants - fashing faux pas if there ever was one!!!! this clip proves what i'm saying ...
OMG, are you an idiot. Just in case you didn't know it. And if you're perplexed by my comment, you're an even a bigger one than your comment demonstrated.
Crispian just died yesterday folks. He was 71 and according to the DJ who just said this and playing this song in tribute, he died in the same home he was born in ...
crispian used to accasionaly pop into hes home town working mans club in swanley in kent uk for the odd gig here and there, i was born in the 70's hes music is great and reminds me of the good old days :-) .
crispian used to accasionaly pop into hes home town working mans club in swanley in kent uk for the odd gig here and there, i was born in the 70's hes music is great and reminds me of the good old days :-) .
What a great song! And that wonderful hook with the flute & bassoon (or maybe bari sax). Behold the power of the Arranger, sorely lacking in much of today's pop music!
It's just a shame that it's a b/w kinescope instead of the original videotape, which may or may not have been in colour.
Sadly, since videotape was so expensive back then, it was a common practice to erase & reuse it. :-((
Oh for Petes sake! He means that YOU should make your life the way you want to make it. It Can be heaven if you just open your eyes and see the good instead of the bad.... it is a great classic, well ahead of its time, and thats that!!!!
When I was a kid I thought the first line was 'You with your mashed potato', and I had this image of a big bird sitting at the table wolfing down the spuds while her fella looked on in despair!!!!!!!!
"When I was a kid I thought the first line was 'You with your mashed potato', and I had this image of a big bird sitting at the table wolfing down the spuds while her fella looked on in despair!!!!!!!!"
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! Your post made my night!! :-))))))))))
I used to dress exactlly the same as those fellows back in the 60's. I had my own Beatles jacket. It was courduroy,black , and had no collar the same as the Beatles. That was the fashion for a time. I even cut my hair the same.
O-k, point taken, but if it is not famous musicians following him, maybe it was guests who won an opportunity to be included in his song or something, because the performance does look staged.
It may not be the Beatles, but the people definitely do not look like they could be members from the audience. Some of them are even wearing the same (if not very similar) outfits as each other, but it still looks like the Beatles to me.
By the way, can anyone identify all of the artists following Crispian? The only ones I can make out are the Beatles, but I think Donovan and Peter and Gordon are also there. I'm just curious. Does anyone know?
One of the most perfect records ever made and miles above the version by the Changin' Times. Sadly, Crispian St. Peters has been in ill health in recent years. God bless him!
Are those really the Beatles at 0:51? All of them? It looks as if there are many famous artists following him. I guess, he is really the Pied Piper after all, go Crispin!
This video clip is from a show called Club 17 which went to air in my home town of Perth Western Australia on the local channel TVW 7. The man at the head of the line behind Crispian St Peters is the host of the show Johnny Young
I'm sorry, but that clip is from the Go Show from Melbourne - even though I'm a Perthite as well, you'll notice the RCA TV Camera as used by ATVO which were different to the cameras used by TVW :-)
MAYBE we need CRISPIAN ST. PETERS to lead us out of the mess this country is in. WAS 12 years old when this song came out, and to this day it still leaves it's tune playing in my head for days. THANKS for loading it.
ousooner702 2 weeks ago
Eat your heart out, Justin Bieber...LOLOL
This is one of my favorite songs. :)
Thanks very much for posting. :)
hamilton59840 1 month ago
Summer of 66 off to San Diego then Vietnam any Marines from Hotel 2/9 or 3rd CAG out of Phu Bai
60fatman 1 month ago
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ducraker 3 weeks ago
@60fatman Glad to see there are some left out there. Graduated MCRD San Diego, Platoon 3042, 03/02/1966 I was 19 years old. Then, Schools Battalion (Del Mar Area) tank instructor. 1967, shipped to 6th ForceRecon Co. Pearl Harbor HI. I had no clue! Discharged 11/1969.
It's interesting how certain songs bring back the memories. Wild/crazy times to be a Marine.
Sempre Fi, fatman
ducraker 3 weeks ago
always loved this song
poconopatie 1 month ago
OMG ITS GLOWING TURBO THE BEATLES
mrxai658 1 month ago
It made it to number 4, according to Wikipedia.
VideoPreacherMan 1 month ago
The summer of 66 is dead on but this song didnt even make the top 40 national billboard single chart. Im surprised cause I remember hearing it all the time
kennyddd1 1 month ago
Yes, on 16th May 1992 my band Gemstone were playing at the Swanley Workingmens Club in Kent and I had the great honour of passing my faithful old Stratocaster to "Crispy" and he did a blinding version of this song to all and sundry, as he used to frequent that club quite often. It was so sad to hear of his passing. That is a gig I will never forget.
jnorman737 2 months ago
From Australian tv check out the line up behind him Johnny young Tony barber Denise Drysdale etc
powerhungry52 2 months ago
@powerhungry52 GO 9/9 was the show with also the mixtures, annette steele, deakins,and strangers it was aired on ATV ,TVQ,TEN,TNT,STW,SAS,BCV,AMV.
historicbloke 3 weeks ago
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powerhungry52 2 months ago
Great tune but cheesy lip sync performance!
Jman
Kabul81 2 months ago
his only amertcan hit,,thats it folks!!!!!!
09bnunez 2 months ago
I was probably about six years old when this song was out and here I am now and couldn't jump more than a few feet like that with out in jury. I know there are alternate realities going on in all different time tunnels and I'm sure part of the formula for transporting has to be through music. How fast does music travel?
MsThebeMoon 2 months ago
@MsThebeMoon Where I'm from music travels at the speed of rhyme...
lochraven21286 2 months ago
Well, if that ain't dorky as shit ... and that's my generation ... actually it was my brother and my sister's generation.
MsThebeMoon 2 months ago
This is a great track...It tends to be remembered in the wrong way for some reason. It is only when one plays it again that one actually hears the beauty the music the atmosphere...Its really great. I can only think that people conjure up childish images of what it could possible sound like because the chances are that they haven't heard it and because of the infant school images of The Pied Piper my blemish a track with sophisticated music
TheHitDetector 2 months ago
This is completly corny and utter silliness: I LOVE IT!!!! Great video.
David50s 2 months ago
i remember this from early childhood - was a fun tune to dance to then, and will probably always inspire those who seek better times.
akibubba1 2 months ago
wish they would play more of these incredibe hits on the radio again!
Even the "golden oldies' stations keep playing the same songs over and over. C"mon, people, theyre out there. Let's hear em again!
kahlida1 2 months ago
@kahlida1 HEAR IT ON SATALITE A LOT.THIS IS SILLY.WATCH IT ALL THE TIME TOUGH.HAHA R.I.P
diagreen 2 months ago
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It is SO cool that so many of the followers in the chain were guys!
stickoutofthemud 2 months ago
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stickoutofthemud 2 months ago
Follow me,I'm Michelle Pfeiffer LOL!
iw32 3 months ago
LOL @0:15 "Hey! Gimmie back my hat!"
FordeJules 3 months ago
Conga Line!
sixgunn98 3 months ago
You can tell he's not really singing.
TheStu55 3 months ago
I love these videos in black & white. There was something of magic in the sixty.
NormanBates444 3 months ago
Silly video from and old British TV show. Great song though.
Dickneeds 3 months ago
I love this song - the stations don't play it enough!!! One of the best oldies!!!
mimimaria1955 3 months ago
i remember born '56
dean12310 3 months ago
surely the screams have been added on .. I mean would Crispian St Peters really have got girls screaming??
leach1527 4 months ago
@leach1527 Are you kidding? Girls scream at the drop of a hat, especially back in the 60's. They lived their lives in a state of hysteria.
beentheredonethatb4 3 months ago 5
early summer '66---were you getting your kicks???
hoss73ford1 4 months ago
Listen on my account to the (original) version recorded by the Dutch group : The Jets...grtz
JeBeNL 4 months ago
Great AM radio classic!
Frankonino 4 months ago
Didnt Charles Mansion write that song?
MrJeff1947 4 months ago
@MrJeff1947 Artie Kromfeld wrote this for the Jets.
plummklapper 4 months ago
Great song!
Although Crispian obviously didn't read the original story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in which the Pied Piper KIDNAPS the town's children in revenge for the residents' refusal to pay for his services as a rat catcher. So, it turned out to be a singularly bad idea to follow the Pied Piper, for rats as well as for the children, which makes the line 'Trust in me I'm the Pied Piper' sound rather ironic. Don't follow him poor girl whom this song is about, it's a trap!!!!!! :-)
BloodyHellLDN 5 months ago
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unklewink 5 months ago
@BloodyHellLDN yes, this is the story of the RATTENFAENGER von HAMELN, a lovely old town near Detmold, Herford and Bielefeld, where we had a lot of british soldiers w/their families. Hope their children are still all complete :-). This area (Weserbergland) is worth a visit or a vacation. Regards to the UK !
nalvojo 3 months ago
I remember when this song was released. Life was more simple then!!! People had fun !!!!!! I m glad I was around then, and I sure miss those times.
MrTAFSIYNOT 7 months ago 2
This video is awsome!
jimmycron 7 months ago
Besides the Crystals "Then he kissed me" this is my 2nd favorite oldie!
smurfboywv 7 months ago
I just love this song and video...good humour...audience being invited to join in and really enjoying themselves and you certainly wouldnt find any of today's so called singers having a great time like this on x-factor..this was when times were more fun
GarryHerring63 8 months ago
You don't get it! LOL! I AM old enough, (60) and if you were that old, you would'nt even remember what you had for breakfast tonight! Well, I have to take my teeth out and go to bed! LOL! Talk later!
sixtiesrockboy 8 months ago 2
THE PIED PIPER KILL MICE,[IWANTTOKNOWCHIRST] IT A CHILDRENS STORY.GOOD SONG WAS12YEARS OLD
09bnunez 8 months ago
There was a sweet innocence there, wasn't there? All gone now.....thank God for YouTube for helping to preserve these memories of another time and place.
TheProfessorpat 8 months ago 2
@TheProfessorpat Perhaps,,, what if our 'sweet innocence' was actually a euphemistic device for the sheltered-idiocy that allowed our military to slaughter three million men, women and children, all while we just partied-on in a gloriously obscene rapture? While it is true that we Americans are surrounded by the mighty oceans of yesteryear, we will lay claim to a tomorrow that knows no evil and is instead ruled by the kindness of the human heart. Peace.
slightofffist 8 months ago
You Americans are surrounded not by mighty oceans but by people who know evil and who are aware of the evil of America. and for crying out loud, what has this got to do with Crispian St. Peters?????
supercarXXX 7 months ago
@supercarXXX Moron.
phrogbubba 7 months ago
@slightofffist all watched over by machines of loving grace.....
gramule 7 months ago
@gramule You are right. but you watch too much TV. I saw that programme...
supercarXXX 7 months ago
@supercarXXX lol. the comments from the poster (that is to say, the one whose comments i made a comment on) had a resonance to the book by richard brautigan 'all watched over by machines of loving grace', which is worth a read. i understand that this book has been made into a television programme too, hence your helpful, if somewhat redundant comment. hope this helps.
gramule 7 months ago
@slightofffist Well perhaps "innocence" isn't quite the right term...perhaps what I am trying to say was that the 60s were imbued with a wonderful spirit of openness and a joyful appreciation (particularly among the young) of the sensual and spiritual delights life had to offer. While the "old conciousness" robots who controlled the levers of power and privilege waged their terrible wars of attrition, the young people danced and sang and loved to the "Pied Piper."
TheProfessorpat 7 months ago 2
LoL this is adorable. Modern concerts can keep all their ridiculous theatrics and fireworks. I want THIS back. Great song.
Laylagirrl 8 months ago
the pied piper killed all the townspeople's children lol
IWantToKnowChrist 9 months ago
lol bet they didn't know he was leading them to the elevator..very cute
LSH20101 9 months ago
seemed like a good time but people where rioting in the streets of our cities and the viet nam war was going on also
majorl311 9 months ago
what was his real name
44parrot 9 months ago
@44parrot , his real name was, "Robin Peter Smith".
teendude16 9 months ago
@44parrot , his real name was, "Robin Peter Smith". And he's greaTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
teendude16 9 months ago
he seemed intimidated by the line,i know they should really do that,ahahah,but he was intimidated
GabrielDhalaman2 10 months ago
AW ! the summer of 1966 I was Fort Knox Kentucky, so young getting ready for Vietnam, Man where has time gone. good song. Hawk are you out there somewhere
554jim 10 months ago 7
@554jim Welcome home, soldier.
RodCornholio 10 months ago
@554jim miss the day, good fun, good friends, music meant something and was awesome, can't beat it now-days
phyllisjoann 1 month ago
i ove this , one of the best of the 60;s thank you and rip peace
leoretrosi 11 months ago
ha ha
first heard this when i was about 12
loved it then
love it now
philcurt52 11 months ago
Who Wrote The Song I'm The Pied Piper? Arte Kornfeld (one of the organizers of the Woodstock Festival) & Steve Duboff. They also are credited with writing the Cowsill's hit...The Rain, the Park, and Other Things. From Ask.com
LesHarcle 1 year ago
"Under manager David Nicolson's tutelage the shy star was momentarily transformed into arrogance incarnate and astonished the conservative music press of the period by his suggestion that he had written 80 songs of better quality than those of The Beatles. St. Peters also announced that he was better than Elvis Presley: "I'm going to make Presley look like the Statue of Liberty . . . I am sexier than Dave Berry and more exciting than Tom Jones . . . and the Beatles are past it"
rhinohouse 1 year ago
Im sad to read of his passing. He made this his song, through tis a cover.
jmen4ever 1 year ago
His songs will live forever. RIP
weatherboi 1 year ago
Sadly didn't go on to great things and died in june 2010 aged 71
pawnshops 1 year ago
@pawnshops This record is a great thing. Will Last Forever. R.I.P.
funkytv77 10 months ago
I love Crispian St Peters. One of my favs. This is a great tune & his version of "you were on my mind" is top notch.' "But she's untrue" is a good one too.
PhantomDruid 1 year ago 2
I love this clip...Crispian should've been a much much bigger star...poor management, I guess....
TheProfessorpat 1 year ago 2
Now, those were the good old days.....wish I was old enough to remember them! Times these days aren't so kind anymore....look at all the fun those people were having....what I would give to go back in time...
Bansheeeyes78 1 year ago 19
@Bansheeeyes78 Been there - Done that - would give anything to do it again!!!
bsps98 1 year ago 2
@Bansheeeyes78 They really were good days!
jsbach15 4 months ago
@Bansheeeyes78 Crispian St Peter died in 2010. His life was not easy. The past is gone, but you live on. You can be the Pied Piper today. Best wishes.
LasVegasJim 2 months ago
Okay, all those teenage kids following him across the stage? Are you really surprised the kids in the original Pied Piper story fell for it?
ponyboy314 1 year ago
Another total non-entity who suckered UK music fans, despite an almost shocking absence of talent. . .
Rabidburt 1 year ago
WOW!! A forgotten gem. Thanks for uploading.
Treaty4 1 year ago 11
I think that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen. What a natrural born performer he was. Kind of rivals Michael Jackson in that respect don't you think?
comeon224 1 year ago 3
One of the most daring, crazy, brilliant magic things on Youtube.
Love the haircut.
thomastearns 1 year ago 4
@thomastearns
I quite agree! :)
Babyhowdy233 1 year ago
@thomastearns I totally 100% agree...it's so much more than just a bubblegum pop teen hit....gotta listen to it at least a couple times a month...
TheProfessorpat 8 months ago
One of the most daring, crazy, brilliant magic things on Youtube.
Love the haircut.
thomastearns 1 year ago 2
Very sad to hear of his passing. Great song, wonderful 60s performer. I remember Pied Piper as one of my ATFs; it still sounds so happy and upbeat today! Wonderful, wonderful times; so happy i was there as a teen.
HickysBoy 1 year ago
This song makes me picture someone on killing spree.
ChristHump999 1 year ago
I'm the "Fried" Piper...Twisted!...but fun!
UnkleSambo 1 year ago
What a great singer rest in peace - joseph from oldham
MySatellite1 1 year ago
Did not know he had passed on until I saw this video and read the comments. How incredibly sad. One of the all time great songs from my teenage years. RIP beautiful Crispian and thanks for the memories.
stingray100100 1 year ago
I remember this from way back in the day!!! Great to see the video!!! Thanks for posting.
stoneagequeen53 1 year ago
Now that he's gone...What impresses me is that judging from this video, he didn't take himself too seriously---which is always a good thing, in my opinion. Can you think of any other song in history that sounds like this one? I can't. It was unique and good back then (and still is), and he knew it. But he was cool enough to have some fun with it. I'll bet he was one cool dude. He had to be!
Rigmeister9 1 year ago
goodbye PIED PIPER.god bless
diagreen 1 year ago 3
Diabolical - makes one glad the 60s has gone
TheIanftwilson 1 year ago
@TheIanftwilson philistine
davetheoldmod 1 year ago
@davetheoldmod aw come on Dave this sort of stuff was liked by people who migrated to 'Northern Soul' in the late 70s early 80s. Funny that phrase isn't it 'Northern Soul' - wasn't desperately northern from my point of view (in fact it was substantially south) and was totally bland, lacking all soul. Called 'oxymoronical' I think - certainly sounds about right.
karenredhead01 1 year ago
@karenredhead01 sorry but I was a teenager in these days riding my lambretta far before quadrophenia and this is what we listened to in the cafe's and later the disco's, it was all new to us and we loved life ( still do and still ride a 60's modded up Lambretta, occassionally with my 35 year old daughter on the back !) We kept it simple and our music was certainly ( and still is ) fun
davetheoldmod 1 year ago
@karenredhead01
What the hell are you talkin' bout, Karen? You wasted your time listening/watching this and then offered your nebulous criticism of it? Jeezus. You gotta be kiddin' me...
Rigmeister9 1 year ago
@TheIanftwilson
Why'd you watch/listen to it and then spend time commenting on it, then? Are you insane? It's laughable.
Rigmeister9 1 year ago
@TheIanftwilson
Well, maybe you're glad the 60's HAVE gone, AH.
Rigmeister9 1 year ago
zoggy, I dont know what he actually died of but according to the local newspaper this week, he has suffered several strokes the first being in 1995. Since retiring from the music industry in 2001, he has since 2003 been hospitalised on several occasions with pnuemonia. His funeral is due to be held at 130pm St Marys church, London Road Swanley Kent on July 7th.
VOLVO438 1 year ago
what?? He died?? I didn't have any idea...does anyone know what caused his death?
zoggy1950 1 year ago
Died 8th June 2010 :-(
R I P
steveJ1957 1 year ago
Rest in peace Crispian...your music will live on forever xxx
Lynnie750 1 year ago
Rest in peace Crispian bless your heart and thank you for all the wonderful music.
Love this song....Lyn xxx
Lynnie750 1 year ago
RIP -MR ST PETERS....Bless you and thank you for great songs over the year's!!!
heebieandjeebie 1 year ago 3
He died last Tuesday, June 8, 2010. RIP.
TCall2004 1 year ago
Rest in Peace Jose ( from Portugal, where this song and this singer were very popular, in 60´s)
lmradioful 1 year ago
He rest in peace! The song live for a long time!
rzsike 1 year ago
He rest in peace! The song live for a long time!
rzsike 1 year ago
The person immediately behind him needs a good kicking
johnmcglinchey 1 year ago
rest in peace, Mr. St. Peters....
DamienAlymer 1 year ago
RIP Crispian
beulahethel 1 year ago
RIP
AlexemilyPhelan 1 year ago
This song makes me think of much, much better, easier, less complicated times. RIP Crispian. You always made me smile and dance whenever I heard this - you did today.
newtotheold 1 year ago
OMG - the worst thing in the 60s is white people thought they could dance, and lots of the whilte boys wore white pants - fashing faux pas if there ever was one!!!! this clip proves what i'm saying ...
blueinfinite 1 year ago
@blueinfinite - Lighten up, Francis.
TCall2004 1 year ago
@TCall2004 an' I don't want any o' u guyz calling me Francis!!!
blueinfinite 1 year ago
@blueinfinite
OMG, are you an idiot. Just in case you didn't know it. And if you're perplexed by my comment, you're an even a bigger one than your comment demonstrated.
Rigmeister9 1 year ago
@Rigmeister9 hey - go out an' buy a pack of gum so i can show u how to chew it..
blueinfinite 1 year ago
RIP
UrbanTorontoDotca 1 year ago
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A memorial tribute to Crispian St. Peters is presently running in the Bits and Pieces column of Blitz Magazine's web site. blitzmag.blogspot.com
MikeBlitzMag 1 year ago
Crispian just died yesterday folks. He was 71 and according to the DJ who just said this and playing this song in tribute, he died in the same home he was born in ...
moxie96 1 year ago
Crispie died yesterday 8th June. Rest In Peace Peter, you were an original.
heezabirddog 1 year ago
Big, big song in the summer of '66. Sometimes, I play it in my head as a theme tune to ..... something.
mpjrdldn 1 year ago
Beatles, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Warner Music Group, Spinal Tap.
EmpressOfWyoming58 1 year ago
@EmpressOfWyoming58 Led Zeppelin, Dean Martin, Milli Vanilli, The Grateful Dead, Blue Oyster Cult, Fleetwood Mac.
Killdozer1973 1 year ago
One of my Dad's favourite tunes! He always asked me to play this on the piano when I went home!!
summertalitha 1 year ago
BIG HIT IN 1966 I WAS 11 THEN
degray55 1 year ago
THIS IS JUST SILLY. i watch it all the time though .hahahaha
diagreen 1 year ago
crispian used to accasionaly pop into hes home town working mans club in swanley in kent uk for the odd gig here and there, i was born in the 70's hes music is great and reminds me of the good old days :-) .
smithy5271 1 year ago
crispian used to accasionaly pop into hes home town working mans club in swanley in kent uk for the odd gig here and there, i was born in the 70's hes music is great and reminds me of the good old days :-) .
smithy5271 1 year ago
Nobody would do that today, because it wouldnt be cool..
Yet, it would make so much fun, I am sure :))
great time!
dunjak111 1 year ago
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dunjak111 1 year ago
I've never seen this before, what a great clip!
What a great song! And that wonderful hook with the flute & bassoon (or maybe bari sax). Behold the power of the Arranger, sorely lacking in much of today's pop music!
It's just a shame that it's a b/w kinescope instead of the original videotape, which may or may not have been in colour.
Sadly, since videotape was so expensive back then, it was a common practice to erase & reuse it. :-((
ajbalfour 1 year ago
Oh for Petes sake! He means that YOU should make your life the way you want to make it. It Can be heaven if you just open your eyes and see the good instead of the bad.... it is a great classic, well ahead of its time, and thats that!!!!
ladystormannie 1 year ago
Great song. The lyrics can be a religious sect hymn. I hope it is just a parody.
kuren444 1 year ago
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kuren444 1 year ago
When I was a kid I thought the first line was 'You with your mashed potato', and I had this image of a big bird sitting at the table wolfing down the spuds while her fella looked on in despair!!!!!!!!
You
With your masquerading
And you
Always contemplating
What to do
In case heaven has found you
Can't you see
That it's all around you
So follow me
seasidedg70 2 years ago
@seasidedg70:
"When I was a kid I thought the first line was 'You with your mashed potato', and I had this image of a big bird sitting at the table wolfing down the spuds while her fella looked on in despair!!!!!!!!"
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! Your post made my night!! :-))))))))))
ajbalfour 1 year ago
This never gets old
envaneo 2 years ago 4
LOL, the theme song from The Lost - Ray Pye
54321Daniel 2 years ago
duhh
nayair 2 years ago
I used to dress exactlly the same as those fellows back in the 60's. I had my own Beatles jacket. It was courduroy,black , and had no collar the same as the Beatles. That was the fashion for a time. I even cut my hair the same.
sereneles 2 years ago 3
O-k, point taken, but if it is not famous musicians following him, maybe it was guests who won an opportunity to be included in his song or something, because the performance does look staged.
horrorshow20000 2 years ago 4
we dont care
heilACDC88 1 year ago
The dance seems like a sad rendition of the old BUNNY HOP.
sereneles 2 years ago
wow i had forgotten this 'dance' which was popular in the late 60's doubtless inspired by this song which we did at my 1969 graduation. Good song.
misterten2 2 years ago
They are only people from the audience that is following him. I am sure the Beatles have more important things to do.
sereneles 2 years ago 5
It may not be the Beatles, but the people definitely do not look like they could be members from the audience. Some of them are even wearing the same (if not very similar) outfits as each other, but it still looks like the Beatles to me.
horrorshow20000 2 years ago
I thinjk that could be Sandie Shaw second from front and it looks a bit like Gery Marsden at the back
alama300 2 years ago
By the way, can anyone identify all of the artists following Crispian? The only ones I can make out are the Beatles, but I think Donovan and Peter and Gordon are also there. I'm just curious. Does anyone know?
horrorshow20000 2 years ago
One of the most perfect records ever made and miles above the version by the Changin' Times. Sadly, Crispian St. Peters has been in ill health in recent years. God bless him!
MikeBlitzMag 2 years ago 4
This is from 1966...14 years before I was born but, i love this song!! :)
Thanks for posting it!
MrMatty80 2 years ago
wow that was the beatles walking past at 0.51
joyville 2 years ago 4
Are those really the Beatles at 0:51? All of them? It looks as if there are many famous artists following him. I guess, he is really the Pied Piper after all, go Crispin!
horrorshow20000 2 years ago
Ha! That was really enjoyable!
UandMeKid 2 years ago 4
caprice...I was also 12...1954 vintage... right???
My older sister got the album, and we still have it... the whole album was VERY good!
Wasnt this an amazing song... and isnt it Still???...what great taste we had in music!
Jupiterconjunct 2 years ago 4
he really needs a flute to give it that touch
drnrg31 2 years ago 2
immer wieder schön!
mtca54 2 years ago 2
love this song its so catchy, i cant stop singing it
sargentpepper08 2 years ago 17
@sargentpepper08
Actually a clip from Ep.117 of Go! filmed in Melbourne in November 1966.
aussiemusicheritage 1 year ago
This video clip is from a show called Club 17 which went to air in my home town of Perth Western Australia on the local channel TVW 7. The man at the head of the line behind Crispian St Peters is the host of the show Johnny Young
tnbljp 2 years ago 9
I'm sorry, but that clip is from the Go Show from Melbourne - even though I'm a Perthite as well, you'll notice the RCA TV Camera as used by ATVO which were different to the cameras used by TVW :-)
frankscan65 2 years ago
I'll take your word for it that it is in Melbourne,but is is Johnny Young.
He must have been over from Perth performing on the show
tnbljp 2 years ago